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• This invention relates to a method of treating sleep disorders comprising the administration of non-allosteric GABA A agonists.
• the hypnotics most frequently prescribed for the treatment of sleep disorders are classic benzodiazepines as well as compounds like zolpidem and zopiclone. These compounds shorten sleep latency and increase total sleep time.
• the pharmacological effect of these compounds is assumed to be due to a modulation of the GABA A receptor ( ⁇ -aminobutyric-acid A receptor); however they neither increase neuronal release of GABA nor block the reuptake of released GABA. They have no direct GABA A agonistic effect either.
• GABA A receptor modulators exhibit considerable side effects. Especially with the use of benzodiazepines, tolerance and dependency develop rapidly, and rebound insomnia, which will manifest itself by restlessness and somnipathy, emerges upon withdrawal.
• benzodiazepines and all other common hypnotics cause the following sleep profile.
• the object underlying the present invention is to provide an effective hypnotic which has no significant side effects and causes a sleep profile essentially corresponding to physiological sleep.
• the present invention provides a method of treating sleep disorders in a patient in need thereof comprising the administration of a hypnotically effective amount of a non-allosteric GABA A agonist.
• the present invention is based on the unexpected finding that the GABA A agonists muscimol and THIP (4,5,6,7-tetrahydroisoxazolo(5,4-C)pyridin-3-ol) have very advantageous effects on sleep.
• the activity profiles of muscimol- and THIP-induced sleep can be summarized as follows:
• the invention relates to a method of treating sleep disorders in a patient in need thereof comprising the administration of a substance which either directly or indirectly stimulates GABA binding sites of the GABA A receptor in an hypnotically effective amount.
• a substance which either directly or indirectly stimulates GABA binding sites of the GABA A receptor in an hypnotically effective amount.
• Substances which stimulate the GABA binding site of GABA A receptors are referred to herein as non-allosteric GABA A agonists.
• GABA A agonists which exert a direct effect on GABA A receptors, such as muscimol, thiomuscimol, THIP, thioTHIP, isoguvacine,
• GABA prodrugs such as progabide
• GABA uptake inhibitors such as tiagabine and
• GABA transaminase inhibitors such as vigabatrin.
• the above-mentioned substances having a direct or indirect non-allosteric agonistic effect on the GABA A receptor are therapeutically beneficial in a broad range of sleep disorders, including difficulties in falling asleep, frequent nocturnal arousals, early morning awakening and/or a dissatisfaction with the intensity of sleep.
• the compounds are particularly suitable for the treatment of elderly patients.
• the non-allosteric GABA A agonist can be formulated in a manner well-known in the art using common pharmaceutical adjuvants and optionally in combination with other active substances to form common galenic preparations, such as tablets, coated tablets, capsules, powders, suspensions, injectable solutions or suppositories.
• the compounds can be administered in any form or mode which makes the compound bioavailable in effective amounts, including oral and parenteral routes.
• the compounds can be administered orally, subcutaneously, intramuscularly, intravenously, transdermally, intranasally, rectally, topically, and the like.
• Oral administration is generally preferred.
• One skilled in the art of preparing formulations can readily select the proper form and mode of administration depending upon the particular characteristics of the compound selected, the disease state to be treated, the stage of the disease, and other relevant circumstances.
• the compounds can be administered alone or in the form of a pharmaceutical composition in combination with pharmaceutically acceptable carriers or excipients, the proportion and nature of which are determined by the solubility and chemical properties of the compound selected, the chosen route of administration, and standard pharmaceutical practice.
• the compounds of the invention while effective themselves, may be formulated and administered in the form of their pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts for purposes of stability, convenience of crystallization, increased solubility and the like.
• the dose to be administered depends on the patient's age and weight as well as the degree and nature of sleep disorder.
• the non-allosteric GABA A agonists used according to this invention are administered in a dose of 5 mg to 50 mg per day.
• the administration may be intravenous or intramuscular. However, oral administration is preferred.
• hypothalamic amount means an amount sufficient to reduce sleep latency, prolong REMS, prolong nonREMS, prolong total sleep or enhance EEG-delta activity during sleep.
• Muscimol resulted in a dose-dependent increase of nonREMS and REMS and a prolongation of REMS and nonREMS episodes. From the spectral analysis of the EEG within nonREMS, it became evident that muscimol, in particular in higher doses, increases the EEG activity in all frequency bands, most potently, however, at lower frequencies (0.5 to 4 Hz), thought to reflect sleep intensity.

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